SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION AND REMOVAL OF METADATA AND HIDDEN INFORMATION IN FILES

Patent №

US 7,640,308

Granted

2009-12-29

Filed 2004

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10954638

Systems and methods for detecting and removing metadata and hidden information from a file. A system can include a review module to identify metadata and hidden information, and a scrubber module for removing the metadata and hidden information from the file. The scrubber module can remove the metadata and hidden information automatically or upon prompting the user. The file can be a file attached to an electronic mail. The file can also be a file uploaded to a server.

PlanningH04L 67/56H04L 67/5682

AI classification

Planning0.63
AI hardware0.27
Natural language0.07
Machine learning0.02
Knowledge representation0.01
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 156510816

Assignors

ANTONOFF, LAUREN NICOLE, HARIYANI, DEVEN GULAB, JOHNSON, JEFFREY J., ONG, KHAI WEYN, SALIBA, HANI, MATLOCK, STEPHEN J.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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